Transplantation News

Dry January has become an increasingly popular trend in which people abstain from alcohol use for 1 month to reset their health after the holiday season. But, for some, it could be a wake-up call about their struggles with alcohol.

The success of Mayo Clinic’s first paired living-donor liver transplantation may pave the way for expanded access and more “timely transplant” for patients in need, Timucin Taner, MD, PhD, told Healio.

SAN DIEGO — Waitlist mortality and liver transplant rates for women appear to more closely align with rates for men after the implementation of MELD 3.0, according to late-breaking data presented at The Liver Meeting.

SAN DIEGO — Patients with diabetes who were prescribed glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists had lower odds of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease after liver transplantation, noted a presenter at The Liver Meeting.

PHILADELPHIA — Liver transplant recipients who lived in counties with limited access to healthy food were at higher risk for developing diabetes following transplantation, according to data presented at the ACG Annual Scientific Meeting.

Rates of liver-related mortality increased by 19.1% from 2018 to 2021 and varied “several-fold” between states, underscoring the need for improved access to liver transplantation regardless of location, according to researchers.

Over three decades, changes to organ allocation policies were associated with reduced waitlist mortality and increased rates of liver transplant among children with pediatric acute liver failure, according to research in JAMA Surgery.

Immunotherapy treatment may make liver transplant viable for patients with later-stage hepatocellular carcinoma provided they adhere to a 3-month waiting period, according to study results.

Nearly two-thirds of patients with excessive alcohol use and a high fibrosis-4 index were not referred for liver-related care, with fewer referrals among those with mental health disorders or alcohol-related mental health hospitalizations.